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SHARI HATT
LIBERACE'S CLOSET, 2002

Lightjet c-print
Image dimensions 76 x 102 cm
Image courtesy the artist

ESTIMATE $2,000 - $2,500

Shari Hatt is a photo-based artist originally from Halifax and currently living in Toronto and Montreal.  She has been exhibiting since 1993, with numerous solo exhibitions across Canada and in 2001 was the recipient of the Duke and Duchess of York Photography Prize. Often working in serial, one of Hatt’s ongoing projects has been portraits of dogs. She has produced hundreds of images, including portraits of many celebrity’s pets, including British fashion designer, Alexander McQueen. Hatt investigates issues of genre and taste as expressed through popular culture. As Douglas Coupland remarks, “her photographs are brilliant and they really challenge notions of personality, identity, gender, sexuality, capitalism, and you-name-it.”

From operating a working “canine portrait studio” during exhibitions to an insistence that dogs attend the openings of her shows, to the hilarious "17 Reasons People Should Take Pictures of Dogs", Hatt sets up conditions for considering relationships between value and culture. Her Dogs project can be appreciates as a type of performance piece, a social intervention that questions the cultural mediation of pets and the very activity of “taking pictures”. Hatt is conscious of the fluidity of kitsch culture and social context. In the series, Liberace’s Closet created with the cooperation with the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, Hatt provides an intimate look into the star’s collection of glittery costumes. The lush surface details of this photograph replicate the seductive spectacle of the Liberace phenomenon.